Now we have a Dept. of War

 The President of the United States - one Donald J. Trump - had been talking about this at least since he became President last year. And just last week he made good on it with an executive order. However, to make this more official it still takes an act of Congress for him to officially change the official name of the Department of Defense.

I've screen-capped the Defense/War Department Website and Instragam just to let you know what I've found on those sites.

Dept. of War IG

What you see here is the seal for the Defense Dept. Hadn't changed here yet.

www.war.gov

Now the current Department of War is descended from the Department of Defense - and as far as Congressional acts go, the War Dept. is still the Defense Dept which was founded in 1947 at first referred to as the National Military Establishment. In 1949, the NME was renamed the Dept. of Defense.

Now if you think the War Dept is something new - concocted by President Trump it isn't. The Dept of War goes back to 1789 and it was responsible for the young United States' military affairs. In 1798, the Dept of the Navy was created as another cabinet level department and both the War and Navy Departments coordinated broader military strategies until both departments were folded into the NME/Defense Department in 1947.

I suppose the next question is why does the President went forward with the rebrand? Here's an article from the AP:

After months of campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize, President Donald Trump sent a sharply different message on Friday when he signed an executive order aimed at rebranding the Department of Defense as the Department of War.

Trump said the switch was intended to signal to the world that the United States was a force to be reckoned with, and he complained that the Department of Defense’s name was “woke.”

“I think it sends a message of victory. I think it sends, really, a message of strength,” Trump said of the change as he authorized the Department of War as a secondary title for the Pentagon.

I suppose the jury is out on the name change. Perhaps this reflects President Trump's more aggressive posture with regards to what's going on in the world. 

Some of the articles I found out there suggests that America had never won a war with a military under the Dept. of Defense. Again another argument in support of a more aggressive view of the U.S. Military.

Something tells me that this name change will only last until the next President decides to change it back. I'd be OK with say a Dept. of War during wartime, but that's about it.

There are other changes that Pres. Trump had talked about before becoming President in January  which hopefully no American would have a huge problem with is the elimination of the Internal Revenue Service. I mean who likes paying their income taxes? 🤷